Shadow Rider

Creature — Knight

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Weatherlight
Price
$0.10
EDHREC rank
#30003
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Shadow Rider card art
Shadow Rider is a vanilla 3/1 for three mana with no abilities — the kind of card that gets outclassed by nearly everything in a 100-card format. Run it only if you're building a strict tribal or challenge deck that demands it by name.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Shadow Rider is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 3/1 for three with no text is well below the floor for constructed-quality creatures. Pauper is the only format where raw stats at common occasionally matter, but even there Shadow Rider competes against efficient commons that trade a body for actual text. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the power bar is simply too high.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.10 bulk tier

At $0.10, Shadow Rider is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills out a bulk box rather than a deck slot. That price is stable by default, not by demand, and there's no scenario that changes it.

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    Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.